{"product_id":"cultural-melancholy-jermaine-singleton-9780252039621","title":"Cultural Melancholy: Readings of Race, Impossible Mourning, and African American Ritual","description":"A daring cultural and literary studies investigation, \u003ci\u003eCultural Melancholy\u003c\/i\u003e explores the legacy of unresolved grief produced by ongoing racial oppression and resistance in the United States. Using acute analysis of literature, drama, musical performance, and film, Singleton demonstrates how rituals of racialization and resistance transfer and transform melancholy discreetly across time, consolidating racial identities and communities along the way. He also argues that this form of impossible mourning binds racialized identities across time and social space by way of cultural resistance efforts. \u003cp\u003eSingleton develops the concept of \"cultural melancholy\" as a response to scholarship that calls for the separation of critical race studies and psychoanalysis, excludes queer theoretical approaches from readings of African American literatures and cultures, and overlooks the status of racialized performance culture as a site of serious academic theorization. In doing so, he weaves critical race studies, psychoanalysis, queer theory, and performance studies into conversation to uncover a host of hidden dialogues--psychic and social, personal and political, individual and collective--for the purpose of promoting a culture of racial grieving, critical race consciousness, and collective agency.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWide-ranging and theoretically bold, \u003ci\u003eCultural Melancholy\u003c\/i\u003e counteracts the racial legacy effects that plague our twenty-first century multiculture.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jermaine Singleton\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0252039629\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780252039621\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Illinois Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/12\/2015\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 168\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.80lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 6.20w x 0.70d","brand":"Jermaine Singleton","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48086443983103,"sku":"9780252039621","price":50.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_177e85a4-01b4-4b7f-836c-b0ed309605df.jpg?v=1769094704","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/cultural-melancholy-jermaine-singleton-9780252039621","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}